Leave your entry as a comment - include your word count, and your twitter handle if you have one.

Probably good practice to reference any source material, too.

FYI - entries that exceed (or are under) the word limits will not be considered by the judge.

Also, I've had a few questions lately regarding the submission of more than one entry. Yes, you may submit more than one flashfic. I'm going to say a maximum of two (2) entries though. Furthermore, they're not to be continuations, or related to each other in any way -- they need to be completely separate, stand alone entries.

Lost. Alone. Struggling just to breathe.My chest tight, arms numb from holding myself together, jaw aching to be unclenched so I can scream. If only my plans had worked to take me from this world, he could move on. I could be forgotten. But Alice is a cruel bitch and he won't let me go that easily.

He wants my heart to heal so I can love him again.He wants my body healthy so I can be in his arms once more.He wants his Bella but it's much too late.

When he chose to rip the child from my womb because he couldn't bear the thought of losing me, his worst fears came true. Eternity with Edward became my worst nightmare and death my only desire. My soul has become black as night and longs for the devil to take it home.

When you left me, I put up high walls around my heart. I tried to hate you, but I only missed you more. Eventually, all the tears I’ve cried caused a beautiful garden to grow within those walls. The flowers are flourishing; I have to trim them every day so that my garden remains a secret. Others cannot, will not understand.

I have vivid dreams every night. We are together in my secret garden. I remember how you ignited a flame in me with just your cold embrace and chaste kisses and I feel so happy and content.

I don’t know why you left me, Edward. But, I’ll never let you go. If you come back to me, I promise I’ll still be yours. I’ll forever keep a special spot waiting for you in my secret garden.

But in her garden she now strolls; all that she is and all that she has is still hers and hers alone. Nobody can touch her in her garden.

Never again.

She walks, dancing, through the Roses, she sings under the Magnolia, and she smiles that special smile of true happiness by the orange blossoms. The smile that comes from being in complete harmony with oneself.

You shattered everything around you, but that smile of hers? You could not touch that. You could not alter it. You had no power over her.

Today, she needs nobody. She is all she wants to be. She is all she can ever be.

And you—you cannot ever enter her garden, you were banished, not by weapons or harsh words, no, by something much subtler, and much more harsh.

You are locked out of her secret garden because you truly lost your magic.

Our joining was like nothing I could have ever imagined. Her soft lips caressed mine awakening such feelings… and memories. I felt my heart open and envelop her whole being in a deep, abiding love. At the same time, I felt the physical hunger that made me crave her, to touch her, to possess her, to make love… no, to fuck her until she screamed my name.

I felt no remorse, nor fear as our arms wrapped around each other, tugging at clothing, kissing deeply and passionately.

She murmured my name as she her lips caressed my neck. My heart slammed against my chest to match the beating of hers. I thought it may burst free and if it did, I would not care as long as I could continue to be with this exquisite woman.

She wrapped her legs around my waist and I pressed her hard against the wall, kissing and sucking on her neck as she had done to me. Her presence enveloped me and I felt like I was coming home. Every touch, every kiss she placed on my lips, my face, revived memories of a love I had never known I missed.